Freezing high moisture cheeses?

I recently started feeding my infant cheese, and tend to use ricotta, cottage, and fresh mozzarella because they are lower in sodium.

But besides him and me, no one else in the family eats the stuff, and the containers are too large for us to finish quickly. In fact, because the baby is a baby with a fragile immune system, I want to give it to him while it is very fresh, so even if it hasn't spoiled, I wouldn't want to feed him older than week old fresh cheese.

Can these cheeses be partitioned and frozen? Would the taste or texture suffer upon thawing?

Freezing fresh mozzarella isn't a good idea unless you're planning to experiment with unusual textures.;) The water will tend to drain away quickly after defrosting leaving a weird, sort of spongy cheese behind.

Cottage cheese and ricotta can be frozen if you can live with somewhat impaired but but not entirely screwed up texture - the whey will also tend to separate (and you can mix it in, but not put it back where it came from - the cheese solids.) If you were cooking with it, it would be fine. Whether you want to eat it straight from a bowl, only you can decide.

I was given a gift of large quantity of cheddar cheese. The company that produced this recommended freezing to store..everyong I asked about this said NO (including my local cheese store.) I froze - result: fine.

Hard cheeses are very different when it comes to freezing. Perfection is nice if you can afford it and don't mind throwing away a lot of food every week, but for the rest of us, it should be fine. Great? No. Fine? Yes.